Rep. Banks Introduces Bill to Block Biden Abortion Agenda
Washington,
January 28, 2021
WASHINGTON – Today, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee Jim Banks will introduce a bill that would block the Biden administration from undoing the Trump’s administration’s “Protect Life Rule.” The “Protect Life Rule” ensured entities that received funds from the Title X Family Planning Funding Program were in a physically separate location than an operation that performed abortions. It also prohibited Title X funding recipients from providing referrals for abortion. President Biden is expected to take aim at the rule early in his administration. Rather than comply with the Trump administrations’ rules changes, Planned Parenthood decided to drop out of the Title X program and forfeit $80 million in cash per year. Reversing this rule would mean millions in taxpayer dollars would go back to Planned Parenthood. “I thank President Trump’s clarification of the original purpose of Title X, which explicitly did not support pushing abortion as a method of family planning. Abortion is not family planning. It is family ending. Planned Parenthood, which is our nation’s largest abortion provider, doesn’t deserve a dime of taxpayer money,” said Banks. This move comes on the heels of a letter led by Banks and signed by 199 of his GOP colleagues to congressional leaders pledging to vote against any spending bill that removes or weakens Hyde Amendment protections. ### |